Howdy List? This may, at first blush, seem to be more spam unrelated to the work of Open BSD. But it seems to me over the years one of the major criticisms of the Free/Open software movement has come from classical economics/ecology in the form of Garrett Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons. If we are to believe Hardin's thesis then building something like a free operating system (or "free" ideas in general) is the essense of pointless vanity.
But here: http://www.physorg.com/news191765285.html we have a games model showing that resources managed by a communicant group are not necessarily exploited to extinction. Interestingly the ability to impose sanctions in the form of fines for overexploitation did not appear to enhance resource productivity, only the ability to make ongoing agreements about constructive action appear to have mattered. If you think this is "off topic" and irrelevant to misc at openbsd org please accept my apologies and press delete now ;-) Dhu
